Being a huge Pixar fan, I’ll pretty much go see anything they put on screen. Nevertheless, I had really enjoyed Monsters Inc. so I was excited to see this prequel — Mike and Sulley: the College Years. Now, it’s no stretch to the imagination that there was going to be some element of Revenge of…
Category: Reviews
Man of Steel – Movie Review
This umpteenth retelling of the Superman story had a whole lot going for it. Directed by Zack Snyder (one of my favourite directors, despite his penchant for stylish and flashy visuals over dramatic substance) and written by Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer (two of the men behind the highly successfully and recently concluded Batman…
Redshirts by John Scalzi – Capsule Book Review
Redshirts has got to be one of the most geek-friendly book titles I have encountered. The uninformed might guess that it’s about wearing a certain colour of clothing, and they might be wondering why it’s a single compound word. However, any sci-fi fan worth his salt knows that it actually refers to the laughable tendency…
Cloud Atlas – Capsule Movie Review
From the Wachowskis (Andy & Lana), creators of The Matrix trilogy and Tom Tykwer, director of Run, Lola, Run, Cloud Atlas was poised to be a mind-bending piece of sci-fi filmmaking. An adaptation of David Mitchell’s novel of the same name, the story (set in six distinct time periods) deals with reincarnation and the evolving…
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl and Richard LaGravenese – Book and Movie Review
I’m not quite sure what brought me to another supernatural, teen romance (especially after giving up on the Twilight books after only halfway through the second) but I guess I wanted to see if they were truly as similar as they seem. One of the things I noticed right away (especially since I was listening…
The Magicians by Lev Grossman – Book Review
Did you always think that there needed to be more sex, drinking, or 4-letter words in the Harry Potter books? Or that the kids in the Chronicles of Narnia weren’t as snarky, cynical, or full of ennui as the ones you knew at that age? Perhaps that upending of a beloved series of fantasy books…
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins – Book Review
I wasn’t very excited to read Catching Fire at first. The first book, The Hunger Games, was an original blend of sci-fi, action, and drama but I expected that the 2nd novel might be a revisiting of those same elements: the Katniss-Peeta-Gale love triangle, the inventive yet cruel Hunger Games, and the dystopian backdrop of…
Drop Dead Healthy by A.J. Jacobs – Book Review
Recently iTunes had a promotion on the audiobook version of Drop Dead Healthy so I picked it up for $7. Normally I don’t spend much time reading health books, or self-help books. All lot of them seem bogus, or only useful for people who are willing to change everything about their lives in order to…
Springtime for Genre TV 2013
It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted, but I blame that on the fact that I’ve been watching a lot of new shows on TV. While mid-season (i.e. a couple of months ago) was kind of a letdown in terms of getting cool new shows (though I have been watching The Following. More on…
Alvin's Adventures in Pop Culture 